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LEADERSHIP
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"The Cambridge pedigree in cloudTP means something when people experienced in building real services companies step up into a major technology wave like cloud." - Jeff Hine, ESG analyst in his blog cloudTP is unveiled! CTP Redux?
CHRIS GREENDALE, CHAIRMAN AND CEO
After a successful high tech sales and marketing career culminating in VP Marketing, Oracle USA in 1990, Chris became one of the three founders of Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP) in 1991. As a systems integrator, CTP designed and developed custom client server software applications for enterprises. CTP also pioneered a fixed-time, fixed-fee development methodology. Chris ran Sales and Marketing as CTP grew explosively from start-up to over $850m in revenue in 1997. The company had one of the most successful IPO’s of the 90’s and had a market cap of over $5b. In late 1997 Chris left CTP and founded Breakaway Solutions, a similar integrator focused on the next technology wave, internet driven enterprise solutions. Breakaway also had a successful IPO and had a market cap of over $7b. Chris also made numerous personal investments in companies such as Siebel Systems and sat on a number of high-profile boards including Clarify and Glasshouse.
In 2002 Chris joined the dark side as a venture capitalist with Kodiak Venture Partners. In 2007, he made many investments including Astadia, a cloud integrator. Chris recently realized the folly of his ways and rejoined the light founding Cloud Technology Partners.
Chris grew up in New Zealand, came to the US on an NCAA tennis scholarship, degreed in Math and Business, played professional tennis, and married Ellen in 1981.
ERIK SEBESTA, CHIEF ARCHITECT AND TECHNOLOGY OFFICER (CATO)
In this role as Chief Architect and Technology Officer, Erik helps enterprise customers begin and complete enterprise-wide transformations to cloud-based solutions. He facilitates sessions to derive a strategic roadmap of prioritized initiatives, well balanced with the organizations capacity to achieve them. From his recent entrepreneurial endeavors, he separates the true benefits from the hype of cloud computing.
Erik Sebesta served as a National Principal Architect for Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP)/Novell from 1991 to 2006. In his extensive career at CTP, Erik led teams of up to 75 people on successful implementations of client-server architecture projects and packaged solutions. Erik is also an expert in secure identity management, leading a large project for the US government, speaking at security conferences, and guiding many financial, consumer product, and healthcare organizations. In 2003, Erik was named to the Novell Worldwide Architecture Community of Practice advisory board. From 2007-2009, Erik founded several Web 2.0 startups including YouHaveNotChangedOneBit.com and Rrankk.com. He led successful projects with distributed teams working across several continents and rolled out solutions to hundreds of thousands of users. An avid sports fan, he founded and serves as director of TheUltimateShowcase.com.
Erik holds a BA degree from Williams College (Go Ephs!).
JON ROUNDS, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Jon is a seasoned business executive who brings experience in financial services, consulting and healthcare to Cloud Technology Partners. During the past seven years, Jon was part of the leadership team for two start-ups, Health Dialog, where he was head of client operations; and RISC Ventures, where he was co-founder and chief operating officer. Previously, Jon worked in financial services for Fidelity Investments, Chemical Bank and Citibank; and in consulting for the Boston Consulting Group.
Throughout his career, Jon has been a leader of technology intensive businesses and has done extensive business/IT planning, re-engineering, governance and portfolio management. In addition, Jon has been the executive sponsor of major technology projects including an early client server replacement for a mainframe wire transfer processing application, the merger of the institutional back-offices of Chemical Bank and Manufacturers Hanover, and an ERP solution implemented as part of re-engineering a Fidelity Investments’ operation.
One of Jon’s passions is education and he is currently the chair of the board of the Boston Children’s Museum. In addition, Jon is a founder of the Brookline High School 21st Century Fund, has done fund-raising for Northfield Mount Hermon School and Brown University, and is an advisor to Thinking Beyond Borders.
Jon has an A.B. in English and American literature from Brown University and a MBA from Stanford University.
JIM LAMPERT, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, SALES AND MARKETING
As Founder/EVP of Sales & Marketing, Jim is responsible for the sales and marketing efforts of cloudTP. Prior to cloudTP, Jim was President & CEO of Global Green Consulting Group, Inc., a sustainability program development, implementation and management firm which he founded in 2008 and sold to cloudTP on January 1, 2011. Prior to founding Global Green, Jim was Vice President of Sales and Business Development for Ascend Consulting, a consulting firm that designs, develops and delivers technology solutions for the financial services and insurance markets. While at Ascend, Jim successfully built a team that earned recognition as one of the fastest growing privately held firms by the Boston Business Journal and Software Magazine in 2006, 2007 and 2008, and Inc. Magazine in 2007 and 2008 . Jim began his sales career working for EMC where he spent more than 13 years in sales leadership positions in the San Francisco Bay Area. Additionally, Jim has sales and executive sales leadership experience working for e-Docs and StorageNetworks.
Jim graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1986.